Immersive installation of suspended lino prints visuals with soundscape composition of local spaces.  

Lino was hand cut and printed and then re-printed on A3 and A2 Tracing paper, backlit with stage lights.

‘Inter-Being’ was my first work as lead artist alongside Flatlines 2022-23 resident Babalola Yusuf. We invited local up and coming artists to interpret the theme of ‘Oikos’, meaning home or sense of belonging for the first week’s residency, and Arts Foundation Students from East Sussex College to showcase in the second week. It featured as part of the Hastings Coastal Currents Festival, (read more here).

My entry focused on the concept of ‘inter-being’ by philosopher Thich Nhat Hanh, which aligned a sense of belonging with simply being part of existence and our own ecosystem.  

An immersive space was created by a chalk-drawn walkway (emulating the mycorrhizal networks of interconnectivity in forests), leading guests around A2 and A1 suspended lino prints on up lit tracing paper and directing them to Hanh’s words on the wall. A further sense of space was created sonically through a 50-minute composition of notable local spaces in and around Hastings. 

This sort to invite participants into a reflective space to consider their own sense of being, their relationship to their interconnectivity with our ecosystem, and consequently draw a sense of agency and need to protect and engage with our environment to protect it, adding to a wider conversation of the climate crisis.  

Overall show co-curated by Yetunde Yusuf and Maya Ramnarine.

Find out more about OIKOS here